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Nanette,
Thanks for writing. DNA is new to all of us. As I understand how it works is that each child receives the DNA of his or her father and mother. For example in you there is your Fathers male DNA and your Mothers female DNA. If you had a son he received your female DNA but he received his father's (your husband's) male DNA. Male DNA passes down from father to son. When your son has a son he will continue the male DNA of your husband. If your son has a daughter she will get his male DNA but her mother's (Your daughter in law's) female DNA. Females pass their DNA from mother to daughter. For example you passed on your female DNA to your daughter, her daughter will have the same female DNA as you and your mother and her mother etc.
The male DNA is much easier because usually the name stays the same. With the female DNA the last name changes every generation. There is ususally a mutation of a number or so every 10 generations. Which means any male descendant of Ludwig Weyer will have almost exactly the same DNA. They should also have the name of Wire, Weyer or however it changed over the generations. As the female DNA is passed from mother to daughter it is harder to trace mainly because of the tradition of the woman to change her last name to her husbands. So the female DNA has a name change every generation. To complicate it more women's DNA only mutates every 50 generations which adds up to about every 600 years. That means a lady living in Europe has given her DNA to every daughter and their daughter and their daughter etc. for the last 6 centuries. That is why there are very few male matches but a ton of female matches. I used letters of the alphabet to demonstrate how it works.
I know this isn't the best explanation and their are plenty of web sites that explain but I had a hard problem understanding for a while.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wellsfam/dnaproje/results15.html
is a web site that shows the Wells DNA as you can see there are about 30 men with the name of Wells who have a common ancestor. You can see that their DNA matches almost identically. My ancestor was Zachariah Wells of Virginia and we had no idea who is father was. There were descendants of an Aaron Wells who were in the same fix. There were also descendants of a Robert Wells who couldn't find his father either. Both Aaron and Robert were from Kentucky. They were approximately the same age as Zachariah but no connection was ever discovere. Along comes DNA and we find out that descendants of Zachariah, Aaron and Robert all have the same DNA. Because none of us knew those men's father it didn't help. Then other DNA started to match and they were from descendants of Thomas Wells of Maryland. So the concensus of opinion is that Zachariah, Aaron and Robert all descend from Thomas. All we need to do is figure it out. But we now have a starting point and an end point.
For the Weyer DNA project you would have to find a direct male descendant of Samuel Weyer who would like to participate. I have one example of Ludwig Weyer DNA and one example of Johann Andreas Weyer DNA and we keep looking for more volunteers. I have offered to help pay for any male descendant of Andrew but no takers yet. If you still don't understand let me know. You can email me at AJWEYER@aol.com
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